allocation familiale

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Example: Our family lives in town.

Definition: An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

Example: 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America

Definition: A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

Example: Our company is one big happy family.

Definition: Lineage, especially an honorable one

Definition: A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

Example: Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

Definition: Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

Example: Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.

Definition: A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

Example: the brass family;  the violin family

Definition: A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Example: the Indo-European language family;  the Afroasiatic language family

Definition: Used attributively.

Example: For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable for children and adults.

Example: It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.

Definition: Conservative, traditional.

Example: The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

Definition: Homosexual.

Example: I knew he was family when I first met him.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

Phonetic: "/əˈlaʊəns/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

Definition: Acknowledgment.

Definition: That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity.

Example: her meagre allowance of food or drink

Definition: Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

Example: to make allowance for his naivety

Definition: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.

Example: Tare and tret are examples of allowance.

Definition: A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

Example: On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

Definition: A child's allowance; pocket money.

Example: She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

Definition: (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

Definition: Approval; approbation

Definition: License; indulgence

Phonetic: "/əˈlaʊəns/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

Example: The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

Definition: To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Example: Our provisions were allowanced.